transfer from community to 4 year

fieldsports
Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:34:50 +0000

I hesitate to reply, because I have no personal experience with this, but I think they are more concerned with your chances of success going forward, and your CC record offers good assurance of that. You could speak with an admissions counselor at Temple and ask – you have nothing to hide.

Think about what it was that made the difference, and will be different going forward, so that you can sell them on your odds of continued success after transferring. Perhaps engineering was not for you but accounting is, perhaps you are more mature now, perhaps being away at 18 was too distracting. Perhaps you feel you learned a hard, expensive lesson when the first school didn’t work out, and you have since showed the determination to avoid that in the future.

Temple is a big, public school and probably does its admissions mostly on the numbers, but at a smaller school, admissions is often more individualized. If Temple isn’t in a position to take these personal factors into consideration, other schools might. I think they’d far rather have a junior coming in who has the proven ability to finish the program, and will to take the place of somebody else who came in as a freshman and washed out, than to be too concerned with what happened years ago that is not likely to happen again.